Sunday, 12 October 2014

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #322 Prepare Healthy Meals to Go

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #322 Prepare Healthy Meals to Go

In this fast food, fast shopping, fast everything world of
ours it is way too easy to step out the front door expecting to grab something
to eat along the way. This leads to poor food choices, which affects our
health. It’s as though food has become a secondary or even tertiary concern for
many people, particularly urban dwellers, where convenience stores abound, fast
food outlets are open 24/7 and supermarkets open every day. For some, food is
something to consume as you go: a bite on the way between meetings; chuck a
foil wrapped snack at the kids in the car; grab a takeaway on the way home.

Do yourself a favour and slow down. Remember that food is
supposed to be our primary concern. Without food we die. This is what consumed the
daylight hours of our ancestors millennia ago, not meetings and self important,
self allocated chores. Take the time to plan ahead, understand your schedule
and the demands you put on yourself, and work out when you will be away from
home and the kitchen, sit down and work out what food you can cook in advance
to take with you. Prepare a picnic for family outings, make soup for lunch at
work, bake vegetable slices that are nice to eat cold as a healthy snack, and
grab whole raw foods to munch on as you rush around from meeting to meeting. To
help you on your way, LunchBots® [http://www.lunchbots.com/our-story/] offer
environmentally friendly, healthy food containers made from stainless steel, in
a range of sizes and configurations that will help you make this change without adding plastic to your life. Or maybe you can find a locally made product that is similar. Apart
from numerous health and environmental benefits, you’ll save a whole lot of
money when you prepare your own healthy meals to go.

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I am a writer, emerging artist, quiltmaker and public speaker. My current art installation is a work in progress, titled "1000 Flowers for the Planet". Every day, for 1000 days, I will blog one flower with a positive suggestion for how we can improve the planet - environmental, social, moral and ethical ideas. Please join me on this journey, send me your ideas for further suggestions and feel free to comment. If everyone took up only 1% of the ideas (i.e. 10 new actions), imagine the shift in the world!!
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